file under boring but important. Creeping towards #privacy and #opt-in. #GDPR

...the "consent solution" fails to properly request consent, and relies on a lawful basis (legitimate interest) that is not permissible 

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/02/europe_iab_decision/

The obvious and only solution is a cage match.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-desantis-d0fb48fb5ccf444dc7b20590201a05ca

Diving into H.R.3684 - Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (aka Public Law 117-58)

1039 pages, but I will skip around. Good stuff in here. Jobs! Trees! Women driving trucks!

I really think you should read it.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684

"Personally, there are plenty of individuals and views on Spotify that I disagree with strongly," wrote Ek

Okay Ek, gimme a podcast. I want to tell people to burn their house down and kill puppies and stop going to doctors.

Ek is a sociopath and doesn't know it.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/31/1076891070/joe-rogan-has-responded-to-the-spotify-protests-over-his-podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QzjqOl2N9c

#nosanitize

“Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” Mitchell said Friday in a message posted on her website. “I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-entertainment-health-business-neil-young-895b130dac2886d1eb4130e47ed7dd5b

Neil Young for the win.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/01/neil-young-threatens-to-pull-songs-from-spotify-over-joe-rogan-podcast/

oh wups, are we okay?

"He is limp and damp and milder than the breath of a cow."

Such are the times we live in I find uses for the insults of Virginia Woolf

Take as needed:
https://lithub.com/a-selection-of-virginia-woolfs-most-savage-insults/

Couple thoughts* about this Pueyo article:
Mostly agree with a HUGE emphasis on 3 WEEKS from now, contingent on continued fade of variant strength, AND attention paid to how ^%@#* broken the healthcare and social safety net systems are worldwide. Because these corona viruses ain't done with us. So yeah, no back to normal.

*I am not an epidemiologist so what do I know.

Coronavirus: Game Over
It's time to start living again
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/covid-end-game

Ranked choice voting sees the light of day.

https://apnews.com/article/elections-alaska-voting-legislature-election-2020-900d52ccb7d2bbff8de23b3ae92af12f

blown snakes, blown mind. Attn @Museek

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/01/ryan-eicher-glass-snakes/

Got some good pics of my house y'all

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/with/51814547213/

Then again w/o twitter would people be as angry? This method is eating its tail.

natural language processing model predicts heart disease at scale based on...tweets.

"Language patterns reflecting negative social relationships, disengagement, and negative emotions—especially anger—emerged as risk factors; positive emotions and psychological engagement emerged as protective factors."

Where are these angry places so I can avoid them?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4433545/

I see that Musk raised the price of Tesla's "fully self driving" software because it doesn't work.

I clearly do not have what it takes to become a billionaire.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/22/21528508/tesla-full-self-driving-beta-first-reaction-video